Festival del Cinema Italiano – Japan
The Italian Film Festival in Tokyo takes usually place in the Japanese capital during the Golden Week (the most important week of national holidays), in prestigious Yurakucho Asahi Hall. Additional screenings take place in Osaka and online. The selection highlights Japanese Premieres.
The festival, organized by Cinecittà with Asahi Shimbun, the Japanese publisher that hosts the film in the prestigious Ginza Yurakucho Asahi Hall, the Italian Cultural Institute, and enjoys the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic and the patronage of HE The Ambassador of Italy in Japan.
Average audience is 15.000 people, and about one third of the selected films are acquired by Japanese distributors.
2025 Delegation: Francesco Costabile, Margherita Ferri, Paolo Genovese, Fabio Grassadonia, Valerio Mastandrea, Antonio Piazza, Giulia Steigerwalt
2025 Selection:
Battleground by Gianni Amelio
Bestiari, erbari, lapidari by Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
The Boy with Pink Pants by Margherita Ferri
Diva Futura by Giulia Steigerwalt
Familia by Francesco Costabile
Feeling better by Valerio Mastandrea
The First Beautiful Thing by Paolo Virzì
Madly by Paolo Genovese
Romeo is Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi
Sicilian letters by Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia
Vermiglio by Maura Delpero
La vita accanto by Marco Tullio Giordana
